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Ice Cream The Ice Cream task allows students to demonstrate their ability to complete a table and create a graph. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are an incomplete table, a text, and a space to draw a graph. This task is a part of the Construction or Completing Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 1995 by NEMP. |
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Identity The Identity task allows students to demonstrate their ideas and understandings about what is special to Mäori culture. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator or in stations. The resource required for this task is a photograph. This task is a part of the Identity and Heritage task series from 1997 by NEMP. |
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Imaginary Forest Painting The Imaginary Forrest task allows students to demonstrate their ability to create an expressive painting from an imaginative idea, showing a variety of shapes, detail, color mixing and spatial effects. Students will complete this task working independently. The resources required for this task are paint brushes, chalk, paint, a palette, a mixing tray, water, a sponge, and manilla brown paper. This task is to be completed in forty-five minutes. This task is a part of the Making Art task series from 1995 by NEMP. |
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Imagination The Imagination task allows students to demonstrate their ability to use imaginative writing. Students will complete this task working independently. The resources required for this task are seven pictures. This task is a part of the Expressive Writing task series from 2002. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments. |
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Infections The Infections task allows students to demonstrate their understanding of prevention of illness and infection. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. There are no resources required for this task. This task is a part of the Personal Health and Physical Development task series from 2006 by NEMP. |
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Inside Outside Skeletons The Inside Outside Skeletons task focuses on animal adaptations and their skeletons. Students will look at pictures of animals with different types of skeletons and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of having each type. This task includes six questions. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. Resources required for this task are three pictures of animals with skeletons on the outside, skeletons on the inside, and no skeletons. This task is a part of the Living World task series from 2003. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments. |
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It's Cool to Read The It's Cool to Read task allows students to demonstrate their ability to identify persuasive images. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are nine pictures. This task is a part of the Viewing task series from 2002. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments. |
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It's Great to be Fit In the It's Great to be Fit task, students will discuss why it is important to be fit. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resource required for this task is an advertisement poster. This task is a part of the Personal Health and Physical Development task series from 1998 by NEMP. |
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Jack's Cows The Jack's cows task allows students to analyze a task demonstrate their ability to add multiple numbers. Students will read a comic strip about a farmer, identify what the farmer wants them to do, and complete the task. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are a comic strip card, a calculator, and a recording book. This task is a part of the Number task series from 2001 by NEMP. |
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Jamie The Jamie task allows students to demonstrate their ability to deal with conflicting emotions. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are a video recording and a laptop computer. This task is a part of the Relationships with Other People task series from 2006 by NEMP. |
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